On 11-08-09 05:03 PM, John Elliot wrote: > On 10/08/2011 9:49 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: >> WikiText is loose so instead of errors, if the >> parser doesn't like something you inputted it's not going to pass that >> through raw and let a html validator say it's wrong, it's going to >> decide it doesn't like it and treat it as plaintext. > Well, the validation feature that I added to my web-site helped me catch > a bug for you. > > If you are outputting WikiText that includes the HTML-like <h1>, <h2>, > etc., tags, then make sure you're not outputting them in the context of > table content, because that is invalid. In order to turn such WikiText > into compliant HTML, the <h1> WikiText should be converted to a <span > class="h1"> HTML element, and so forth. The various skins should be > updated to do something sensible with the h* classes. <h#> tags are not invalid inside of table contents. <tr>'s contents are flow content, and <h#> tags are flow content.
<h#> tags are however invalid inside of <th> tags which are phrasing content. However in that context the correct thing would not necessarily be to turn the h# into a span, but fold it into the header that's already there. Which may or may not be what the user wants. Both of those changes can break a user's site styles. Would you like to argue for a $wgStricterParsing bool that will sacrifice parser output consistency for things like folding == headers into parent th's (perhaps turn into a span if they explicitly use a <h#> instead of ==), and other things we haven't been able to do to the parser for compat reasons? > I'll let you know if my HTML validator helps me to easily catch any > other bugs like this for you. > > We've already established that MediaWiki is broken because it's > outputting empty <ul> elements, so maybe you can have a look at fixing > that up too. That was a HTML4/XHTML1 rule that's been removed. An empty <ul></ul> is valid HTML5. Wikipedia is just currently set to output an XHTML DOCTYPE and well-formed XML output because of some bots that still use screen-scraping content that were given a second chance to have their developers fix them to use the api before HTML5 is turned on permanently. > Thanks. > > John. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
